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At least 12 people have been killed as houses collapsed during heavy rains in northern India.
The downpour also caused power outages and flooded hundreds of homes.
Schools in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, were closed for the day, and the Bureau of Meteorology recorded 1.4 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak said.
Earlier on Friday, in the Hazrat Ganj district of the state capital, a wall of a slum made of plastic sheeting and mud collapsed where workers were sleeping. Mr Pathak said nine people died at the scene and three others were taken to hospital with injuries.
In the town of Unnao, 25 miles southwest of Lucknow, three other people were killed when their houses collapsed after heavy rain, Mr Pathak said.
Earlier this month, life in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru was disrupted after two days of torrential rains caused widespread power outages and massive floods that swept homes and inundated roads.
The two regions that make up the city, Bengaluru City and Bengaluru Rural, received 141% and 114% of rainfall respectively, the wettest September day in the past eight years.
The monsoon rains in South Asia usually start in June. But heavy rains ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh in March, causing flooding in Bangladesh as early as April.
The monsoon season, which ends in October each year, kills hundreds and leaves tens of thousands homeless.
The weather system of the Indian subcontinent is changing due to climate change. Scientists say this makes extreme events such as excessive rainfall the new normal.
Monsoons are becoming more variable as climate change causes global temperatures to rise, experts say. Most of the rainfall that a season normally falls arrives in a shorter period of time.
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